Setting the Mood

October 14, 2022.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Slowed down by illness, I am craving artistic expression, but with 4-year-old boys in the house there is no safe place to art. On top of that, since the computer crash, I have not yet been able to retrieve my photographs or writing. So… I have been playing with the few photos, and stock photos […]

Close Encounters

June 26, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Weekend Sky

Demanding Attention

June 17, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” Henry Miller ( Linking up with Debbie Smyth’s Weekly Quotation-Inspired challenge.)

Industrious

February 17, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: pick a topic.)

Morning Blush

January 9, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Hammad Rais’ Weekend Sky

Cloud Mountain

October 31, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

(For Weekend Sky.)

Brown-eyed

August 21, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Brown eyes unblinkingbat golden lashes skyward –celestial flirt (For Cee’s Flower of the Day.)

To Touch or Not to Touch

August 2, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

She was quite eccentric, and visibly older than most of the students attending our program. I’d had five years between first and second year, so I guess she was drawn to my maturity. We both wanted to be teachers. After graduation, she went on to her Bachelor of Education, and I gave birth to my […]

Painted End

July 3, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Creatively painted front porch for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge and a final photo for Bushboy’s last photo of the month, which also happens to be something painted (by yours truly).

Farewell to May

June 3, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A single yellow bloom. Last photo for May, 2020. Unedited. Bushboy’s challenge. Hope June brings some resolution.

Fatal Fury

Really wasn’t your faultthis fury that overcame –Words evoked onslaught,a raging river of pain. Didn’t mean to push you,miscalculated my aim,swimming in swamp watersnot a recommended game. You floundered, gurgled,cursed me by name –our love story, now viralbrought an alligator fame. (Image my own. Tale is totally fictional, I promise.)

Still Alive (haiku)

Shoo, Pity!

A kidney stone, coupled with an infection has set me back five days – two trying to soldier through the pain, and three pursuing medical answers. Anyway, I’m on the mend, tired already of this foray into self-pity. Tomorrow, I keep telling myself, is a new day. (Image my own)